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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
46297
World Ranking
1459
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang Lucht is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics such as Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Wolfgang Lucht has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Communications Earth & Environment, Earth System Dynamics, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Several recent papers reflect the breadth of Lucht's research scope:

  • "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" (2023), published in Science Advances
  • "Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries" (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
  • "The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene" (2024), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change" (2021), published in Nature Communications

Wolfgang Lucht has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Dieter Gerten, Fabian Stenzel, Constanze Werner, Sibyll Schaphoff, and Jonathan F. Donges. The number of collaborations ranges from five to twelve times with these researchers.

Best Publications

  • Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

    Timothy M. Lenton;Hermann Held;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Jim W. Hall

  • Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

    S Sitch;Benjamin Smith;IC Prentice;A Arneth

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS

    Crystal B Schaaf;Feng Gao;Alan H Strahler;Wolfgang Lucht

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

    Helmut Haberl;K. Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann;Veronika Gaube

  • A Systematic Study of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interactions

    Prajal Pradhan;Luís Costa;Diego Rybski;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance

    Alberte Bondeau;Pascalle C. Smith;Sönke Zaehle;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Responses of spring phenology to climate change

    Franz‐W. Badeck;Alberte Bondeau;Kristin Böttcher;Daniel Doktor

  • An algorithm for the retrieval of albedo from space using semiempirical BRDF models

    W. Lucht;C.B. Schaaf;A.H. Strahler

  • Terrestrial vegetation and water balance-hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

    Dieter Gerten;Sibyll Schaphoff;Uwe Haberlandt;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Agricultural green and blue water consumption and its influence on the global water system

    Stefanie Rost;Dieter Gerten;Alberte Bondeau;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050.

    Ilona M Otto;Jonathan F Donges;Jonathan F Donges;Roger Cremades;Avit Bhowmik;Avit Bhowmik

  • Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect

    Wolfgang Lucht;I. Colin Prentice;Ranga B. Myneni;Stephen Sitch

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Dieter Gerten;Dieter Gerten;Vera Heck;Vera Heck;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • Bioenergy production potential of global biomass plantations under environmental and agricultural constraints

    Tim Beringer;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Water savings potentials of irrigation systems:: global simulation of processes and linkages

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Dieter Gerten;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Evaluation of the agreement between the first global remotely sensed soil moisture data with model and precipitation data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Klaus Scipal;Carsten Pathe;Dieter Gerten

  • Global food demand, productivity growth, and the scarcity of land and water resources: a spatially explicit mathematical programming approach.

    Hermann Lotze-Campen;Christoph Müller;Alberte Bondeau;Stefanie Rost

  • Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints

    Marianela Fader;Dieter Gerten;Michael Krause;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sibyll Schaphoff
Sibyll Schaphoff Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Wolfgang Cramer
Wolfgang Cramer Aix-Marseille University
Jens Heinke
Jens Heinke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Alberte Bondeau
Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Xiaowen Li
Xiaowen Li Tsinghua University

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